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Making Black History: Diasporic Fiction in the Moment of Afropolitanism

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This study proposes that Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct cultural moment or historical constellation that allows us to glimpse the shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa – as signifier, as real and imagined locus – embodies in the globalized cultural landscape of the 21st century. As such, Making Black History looks at contemporary diasporic fictions that have been written and received in the moment of Afropolitanism.

Author(s): Dominique Haensell
Series: Buchreihe der Anglia/ ANGLIA Book Series, 73
Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2022

Language: English
Pages: 254
City: Berlin

9783110722093
9783110722093
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter I Introduction – Writing Race in the Moment of Afropolitanism
Chapter II Going Through The Motions – Movement, Metahistory, and the Spectacle of Suffering in Teju Cole’s Open City
Chapter III (Post‐)Independent Women – Romance, Return, and Pan-African Feminism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
Chapter IV A Painful Notion of Time – Conveying Black Temporality in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
Chapter V Conclusion – The Past Is Always Tense, the Future Perfect
Bibliography
Index